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[Quote No.33976] Need Area: Friends > General
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister
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[Quote No.33989] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Government power should be very limited because bureaucracies and poor incentives produce very poor results and cost more than necessary. For example...] If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand." - Milton Friedman
Famous economist
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[Quote No.33996] Need Area: Friends > General
"The 'True Gentleman' is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe." - John Walter Wayland
1899
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[Quote No.33998] Need Area: Friends > General
"True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality [individualism], the inequality of success [meritocracy]; the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world [along with compassionate, reasonable support for those less fortunate, capable or inspired]." - Felix Emmanuel Schelling
(1858 - 1945), American educator and scholar.
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[Quote No.34005] Need Area: Friends > General
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it." - George Bernard Shaw
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[Quote No.34012] Need Area: Friends > General
"Justice [the human virtue of not harming others] ...is the main pillar that supports the whole building. If justice is removed, the great fabric of human society which seems to have been under the darling care of Nature must in a moment crumble into atoms... Men, though naturally sympathetic, feel so little for others with whom they have no particular connection in comparison to what they feel for themselves. The misery of one who is merely their fellow creature is of so little importance to them in comparison to even a small convenience of their own. They have it so much in their power to hurt him and may have so many temptations to do so that if the principle of justice did not stand up within them in his defense and overawe them into a respect for his innocence, they would like wild beasts be ready to fly upon him at all times. Under such circumstances a man would enter an assembly of others as he enters a den of lions." - Adam Smith
Famous philosopher and economist. Quote from his book, 'The Wealth of Nations'.
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[Quote No.34013] Need Area: Friends > General
"[All governments, politicians and bureaucrats should remember this:] The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition... is so powerful, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations. Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." - Adam Smith
Famous philosopher and economist. Quote from his book, 'The Wealth of Nations'.
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[Quote No.34015] Need Area: Friends > General
"The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man [and woman] to better his [or her] condition... is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration." - Adam Smith
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[Quote No.34016] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is not to be expected that a people will be more honest than the government under which they live..." - Henry McCulloch
U.S. Treasury Secretary between 1865 and 1869.
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[Quote No.34022] Need Area: Friends > General
"[All governments, politicians, bureaucrats and business-people should remember this:] All living creatures have an instinct to survive. When a bad [political, economic and or company] system determines... survival... they have to do all kinds of corrupt and unethical things to live. The outcome is inevitable." - Professor Jiang Gaoming
Institute of Botany under the Chinese Academy of Sciences
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[Quote No.34051] Need Area: Friends > General
"Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts." - Mark Twain
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[Quote No.34056] Need Area: Friends > General
"[War is...] A strange game - the only way to win is not to play." - War Games
the 1983 movie
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[Quote No.34064] Need Area: Friends > General
"Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of economic freedom. Where there is no market economy, the best-intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter." - Ludwig von Mises
Famous Austrian economist. Quote from his masterwork, 'Human Action'.
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[Quote No.34066] Need Area: Friends > General
"[When considering governments, politicians, business-people and other leaders] Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them." - Bible
Matthew 7:15-23
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[Quote No.34081] Need Area: Friends > General
"I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail... because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance." - William Faulkner
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[Quote No.34082] Need Area: Friends > General
"Men [and women] who believe absurdities will commit atrocities." - Voltaire
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[Quote No.34083] Need Area: Friends > General
"A bird [or politician] does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." - Chinese proverb
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[Quote No.34089] Need Area: Friends > General
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." - Pericles
Athenian political leader, 430 B.C.
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[Quote No.34097] Need Area: Friends > General
"Of all tyrannies [political or otherwise], a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C. S. Lewis
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[Quote No.34098] Need Area: Friends > General
"A [political] tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." - Plato
Philosopher. Quoted from his work, 'The Republic', published circa 380 B.C.
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[Quote No.34099] Need Area: Friends > General
"The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into [political] greatness... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs, when he first appears he is a protector. [But remember, 'Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' and therefore the need for checks and balances and defined limits to power.]" - Plato
Philosopher. Quote from his work 'The Republic', published circa 380 B.C.
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[Quote No.34102] Need Area: Friends > General
"Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance." - William O. Douglas
(1898 - 1980), with 36 years on the bench, he was the longest-serving U.S. Supreme Court Justice in history.
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[Quote No.34104] Need Area: Friends > General
"... the impious presumption of [politicians, bureaucrats] legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained [petty tyrannies and] 'false' religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time ..." - Thomas Jefferson
'Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom', 1779.
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[Quote No.34108] Need Area: Friends > General
"Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.34118] Need Area: Friends > General
"If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Sir Karl Popper
Philosopher and author.
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[Quote No.68606] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics; freedom from force and fraud - including freedom from deception, dishonesty, inconsistency, inauthenticity and hypocrisy; propaganda: In the ultimate choice between life and death, freedom and slavery as in existential war can be rationally argued will become necessarily immoral, where 'it doesn't matter what is right, only who is left', and therefore 'might is right' - Self-Defense and Martial Arts; Conflict and war: strategies - Superior force and deception: In wartime...] If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed." - Mark Twain
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[Quote No.34123] Need Area: Friends > General
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.34124] Need Area: Friends > General
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public opinion is greater than he who enacts laws. [This is why politicians and governments spend so much time and money on public relations, advertising and speech writers.]" - Abraham Lincoln
Lawyer and U.S. President
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[Quote No.34126] Need Area: Friends > General
"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. [Is equality more important than freedom? Every political party and politician should consider this question well and be required to explain their answer to citizens before the citizens vote for or against them in elections.]" - Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805 – 1859), French scientist and author.
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[Quote No.34131] Need Area: Friends > General
"[In discussions with others] The language of needs [and these days entitlements] is the [often well-intentioned but unfortunately inaccurately overused, dependency reinforcing] native tongue of socialists, therapists, and paternalists of all sorts and is addressed to needy dependents. The [usually more truthful, as in descriptively accurate, and freedom empowering] language of wants is spoken by self-respecting adults and is addressed to other self-respecting adults." - Thomas Szasz
(1920 - ), psychiatrist and academic.
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[Quote No.34136] Need Area: Friends > General
"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves." - T. S. Eliot
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[Quote No.34151] Need Area: Friends > General
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
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[Quote No.34175] Need Area: Friends > General
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others [in the necessity to stop the injuries. Any more is inequitable and inappropriate regardless of how much desired]." - Thomas Jefferson
'Notes on the State of Virginia', 1781.
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[Quote No.34176] Need Area: Friends > General
"...a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men [and women] from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.34177] Need Area: Friends > General
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743 - 1826)
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[Quote No.34180] Need Area: Friends > General
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow." - James Madison
(1751 - 1836), Father of the U.S. Constitution, 4th US President. Source: 'Federalist' # 62.
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[Quote No.34181] Need Area: Friends > General
"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is the landmark of an authoritarian regime." - Potter Stewart
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
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[Quote No.34182] Need Area: Friends > General
"Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash [...for example, Humankind's unlimited potential]." - Harriet Rubin
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[Quote No.34184] Need Area: Friends > General
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." - H. L. Mencken
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[Quote No.34186] Need Area: Friends > General
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.34188] Need Area: Friends > General
"...Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy... censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives." - Robert A. Heinlein
'If This Goes On'
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[Quote No.34189] Need Area: Friends > General
"Violence is the last refuge of the [politically] incompetent." - Isaac Asimov
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[Quote No.34190] Need Area: Friends > General
"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want [other] people to be controlled [beyond the sake of mere safety and the protection of personal property] and those who have no such desire." - Robert A. Heinlein
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[Quote No.34191] Need Area: Friends > General
"I do not question that, in an age ...like our own, sovereigns might more easily succeed in collecting all political power into their own hands and might interfere more habitually and decidedly with the circle of private interests than any sovereign of antiquity could ever do... After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp, and fashioned them at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided: men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting: such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced [by a petty bureaucracy] to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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[Quote No.34194] Need Area: Friends > General
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun [the threat of force]." - Mao Tse-tung
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[Quote No.34195] Need Area: Friends > General
"[When next a politician tells you of the government's right to censor what you are exposed to, remember this statement by the infamous Minister for Propaganda in Nazi Germany, Joseph Goebbels...] It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion." - Joseph Goebbels
Nazi Germany's Minister for Propaganda, during World War II.
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[Quote No.34196] Need Area: Friends > General
"The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day." - Theodore Roosevelt
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[Quote No.34198] Need Area: Friends > General
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
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[Quote No.34200] Need Area: Friends > General
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men [and women] in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. [i.e. socialism, communism, fascism and statism]" - Frederic Bastiat
French economist in the 1800s.
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[Quote No.34201] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is only one difference between a bad economist [or politician] and a good one: the bad economist [or politician] confines himself to the visible effect [and not the unforeseen incentives and consequences]; the good economist [or politician] takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen." - Frederic Bastiat
French economist in the 1800s.
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